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FRIENDS of Lindsay Lohan are saying that her actor ex-boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama, was just using her for the press and blame him for her hard-partying ways.

Despite being on the rocks with Lohan ever since her hospitalization, Valderrama apparently promised Toys ‘R’ Us that the starlet would show up for his appearance there to promote Xbox’s new “Halo 2” video game last night. After landing in the city, he called her family to come join him, and her mother and younger siblings, sans Lohan, drove in to meet him at the store. The unhappy family gathered in a private room for a sit-down meeting.

It seems like last week’s trip by Lohan and her fame-hungry ex to Palm Beach to spend quality time together didn’t do the trick either. Us Weekly reports that the pair went there to recover after a huge screaming match Nov. 5 at the Chateau Marmont in L.A. One witness told the magazine, “Lindsay was shouting that Wilmer’s family won’t accept her.” Instead, the two decided to split up.

The wily Valderrama also dated Mandy Moore and Jennifer Love Hewitt while their stars were rising.

Lindsay’s already on the rebound – she was seen at Hollywood’s Club Prey on Friday night with new beau Chad Michael Murray, one of her co-stars in last year’s movie “Freaky Friday.”

IT’S NEW YORK FOR PARIS

Paris Hilton is back in New York City with a vengeance. She’s been partying non-stop at clubs with her ex-brother-in-law, Todd Meister. The two were even spotted kissing briefly on Thursday night inside Bungalow 8, in the same spot where earlier in the week a female fan had fawned all over Hilton. “You’re so pretty!” said her admirer, to which Hilton tossed back, “I know.”

Meanwhile, a fellow partygoer said when she spotted Hilton at the club the previous weekend, there was a large Ziploc bag inside Hilton’s purse that appeared to be stuffed with dried herbs.

On a similar note, guests were convinced that hempster Woody Harrelson was enjoying a joint in the middle of the “After the Sunset” premiere party last Tuesday.

REAL MEN DO CRYTom Hanks cried like a girl at the Glamour Women of the Year awards on Monday while Kerri Russell, Aisha Tyler, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Capshaw and Kerry Washington read letters from women soldiers who were killed in Iraq. But luckily Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” was there to put a stop to the seriousness. “No more tears tonight, please!” he ordered the crowd. “Who puts on a meaningful awards show anyway? Please, people!”

STOLEN MOMENTS

Revenge is sweet for New Yorker scribe Malcolm Gladwell. He got to grill the woman accused of plagiarizing him and write about it. Playwright Bryony Lavery tells Gladwell in this week’s the New Yorker. “I thought it was OK … It never occurred to me to ask you,” she tells him about ripping off parts of his piece titled “Damage” for her play “Frozen.” Lavery dissolved into tears at Gladwell’s kitchen table, sniffling; “I’d like to repair what happened, and I don’t know how to do that. I just didn’t think I was doing the wrong thing.”

INSTANT MESSAGES

* Restaurateur Jean-George Vongerichten is so annoyed about the success of his former maitre d’ Abbe Diaz’s new tell-all book, “PX,” that he is forcing his employees to sign confidentiality agreements. They were also banned from discussing the traitorous tome at work.

* Madonna has swapped her famous macrobiotic teetotaling diet for a good old English pint. While pub-hopping with “The Insider’s” Pat O’Brien, she told him that she nips out for a beer all the time. “I just call up my friends and we go get a pint,” she claimed to O’Brien, before yelling to the bartender “Get us a pint, love! … I want a half a pint of Timothy Taylor and a packet of crisps.”

* FYI: Pierce Brosnan gifted himself with a new $5,700 Cartier Santos gold and steel watch, to add to his collection of 12 others … Bruce Willis partied at the yet-to-open Gypsy Tea last Thursday night with actress Ali Larter … Porn star Jessica Jaymes, of Nick Lachey fame, apparently strips on her own time too. She revealed to onlookers that she doesn’t like wear underwear while dancing at Soho:323 on West Broadway … Penelope Cruz changed three times during her “Noel” premiere, wearing dresses from Proenza Schouler, Prada and Ralph Lauren. She used her chauffeur-driven car for the quick changes … Josh Hartnett and model girlfriend Daria Werbowy are as obsessed with Freeman’s restaurant as all the other hipsters in New York. The pair hit the hidden Lower East Side hot spot twice this week.